As is becoming traditional I got the latest instalment of the Call of Duty franchise, Black ops, as one of my Christmas presents. What follows is some brief comments having finished the single player campaign last night. I don’t think I’ve been overly hammering it but I reckon it took around 16 hours of game [...]
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Review: The Ballad of Gay Tony
We finally reached the limit on the PS3′s hard disk a few weeks ago. Although I had the option of reformatting the hard drive to reclaim the 10gb after Sony disabled OtherOS* it seemed a lot easier to get a newer more spacious disk. A quick trip to Amazon later and a very simple backup [...]
Sniper Fi
I actually has an opportunity to play with the Special Ops mode of CoD4:MW2 last night with a friend. Despite a terribly laggy connection we had a blast working our way through the Alpha and early Bravo missions. I suspect the AC-130 mission was the most fun although the player on the ground is mostly [...]
Half-Life 2 and the Orange Box
The Orange Box certainly represents the best value for money for gaming in a long time. I think we picked it up for the PS3 for about £12 which in an era of £55 for a new release is welcome in the credit crunch. People make much of the fact the PS3 port was out-sourced [...]
On the Subject of GTA
So despite my obvious desire for the game I haven’t mentioned much about it since I got it. Some times it makes sense to comment on things with a little perspective that time can provide. Well the first thing to note is I’m a fan of the GTA series and the general concept of free [...]
Blu-Ray and CoD4
I see that Sony have “won” the battle for physical high definition media. Unfortunately since the last firmware update my Japanese PS3 has rather taken against playing Blu-ray discs. It does however play DivX files quite nicely (better than my ageing Cello DVD player). Given current trends I’m unlikely to be buying any Blu-Ray discs [...]
